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nomenclature from correspondents are asked for, but not original 

 articles. The present notices are like those of the Nenes Jahvbuch fur 

 Mineralofrie : good abstracts without too much of the abstractor's 

 personal views. An excellent model to follow. 



The first number of the Journal of School Geography, a monthly of 

 thirty-two pages, edited by Professor R. E. Dodge, of New York, 

 assisted by Professor W. M. Davis, Dr. C. W. Hayes, Dr. H. B. 

 Kiimmell, Dr. F. M. McMurry, and Mr. R. de C. Ward, appeared in 

 January. It is intended for teachers, but will interest yet others. 

 Facts are desired, and wordiness eschewed. It contains articles, 

 notes, and reviews. Geographers will do well to send one dollar, 

 being a year's subscription, to 41 North Queen Street, Lancaster, 

 Pa., U.S.A. 



Masson et Cie., Paris, announce a new quarterly journal. Archives 

 d'Anatomie Microscopique, to be edited by Professor L. F. Henneguy, 

 under the direction of Professors E. G. Balbiani and L. Ranvier. 



We have received Nos, i and 2 of Die Umschaic, a weekly journal 

 published by H. Bechhold, Frankfurt-a-M., at a yearly subscription 

 of ten marks, single numbers forty pfennige. It contains short 

 articles dealing with progress and activity in the whole round of pure 

 and applied sciences, literature, and art. Among the contributors are 

 mentioned M. Buchner, K. Busz, W. Flemming, R. H. France, 

 O. Hamann, H. H. Hirsch, P. Jensen, R. Michael, A. Nestler, 

 L. Reh, F. Romer, Fr. v. Wagner, and O. Zacharias. The second 

 number contains a paper on cave-fauna by Dr. Hamann, being based 

 on his book " Europaische Hohlenfauna," Jena, 1896. 



Bibliography. 



In connection with the Bibliographia universalis, II Policlinico, an Italian 

 medical review, will, from January of this year, publish regularly a 

 bibliography of current Italian medical literature ; the same will be 

 done for Belgium by the Journal medical. The movement will also be 

 aided by the Bibliographia ohstetrica-ginecologica italiana for 1895. 



The Geological Society of London has issued Part I. (A-La) of 

 a " General Index to the first fifty volumes of its Quarterly Journal," 

 compiled by Mr. L. L. Belinfante, the Assistant-Secretary. The 

 conclusion is promised in August. It is arranged both as author and 

 subject index in one alphabet, and the subject-headings provide a 

 wealth of information in themselves. The care lavished on the 

 preparation is shown by the numerous minor details that have been 

 carefully noted and preserved, and whether one is on the hunt for 

 " Bagshots " or obscure scraps of fossil reptiles, one's time will be 

 saved by this valuable index. A slight fault is the omission of the 

 authority for the new specific and generic names. 



Mr. W. Rupert Jones' " Geological Literature added to the 

 Geological Society's Library during the year ended December 31st, 

 1896," improves on the good qualities of previous issues. It seems a 

 pity that this cannot be slightly extended in scope so as to make it a 

 complete record of each year's geological literature. Publications 

 not in the Society's library might be distinguished by some sign, a 

 perpetual reminder to possible donors. 



We have received the fifth and concluding part of the " Biblio- 

 graphy of American Economic Entomology " (down to 1888), issued 

 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This comprises a list, 

 under authors' names (L — Z), of papers and notes, and its utility is 

 vastly increased by an index of subjects at the end. A large number 

 of the contributions here recorded would not be inserted in any 



